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So found out what made my car sounds like two squirrels fighting in my engine bay

so I decided to rip down my block today and what I found was just what I thought I would find. Spun bearing... Bummer deal. so I guess I'll send the crank in to be machined down, Order some some new ACL bearings once we find out how much material needs to be removed to get it back smooth. get the block hot dipped and cleaned up. new seals, piston rings and put it all back together should be like new again.
not really supposed to look like this.

The questions everybody is dying to ask are... How long do you warm it up in the morning? and What kind of oil do you use? Edit: My apologies tho man that sucks!

I take it easy on it till it gets up to operating temp.... but I do drive it like i stole it often haha this motor that the pictures are from happened at the beach drifting driftwood. Castrol full synthetic

The ideal warm up is to let it idle for 30 seconds or so, blip the throttle to about 50% of redline twice or so, then drive it gently while keeping it under 3kRPM until the oil temp goes over 180F.

Just sitting and letting it idle for any long length of time is bad for the oil and engine.

Damn, I didn't know that. When are you going to make a williaty FAQ with all of this stuff that I didn't know/even know to ask? Of course, I guess it wouldn't be a FAQ, more like a Should Be Frequently Asked Questions But Nobody Knows to Ask, or SBFAQBNKA.

While the oil is cold, the engine is dying. You need to get the oil up to temp as fast as possible. However, if you were to go WOT (which would warm the engine up really fast), the engine would start dying much faster. If you leave it at idle, the engine dies slowly for a long time. So you compromise by using a little throttle to get the oil warm faster but keeping the revs and engine load low to prevent the engine from dying faster.

Unless you were running substantially larger than stock bearing clearances and you had an oil pressure gauge showing you that you were making less than 10psi/1kRPM, it wasn't the oil pump's fault.

The 7mm oil pump will make 20psi/1kRPM on stock bearing clearances. That's more than enough flow.

this is true, but at high RPM's drifting drift wood for 15 min non stop might have had something do to with it. oil sloshing to one side of the block, maybe not getting back to the bottom of the pan fast enough... idk. it was brad new oil as of 200 miles before this happened.